Productivity gurus Charles Simonyi, David Allen to partner on ‘Getting Things Done’ app

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There are tons of apps out there designed to work in conjunction with principles of the “Getting Things Done” methods, better known as GTD, but for the most part they’re basic list managers, and none of them has the official stamp of approval of the man behind the movement, David Allen. As Allen explains in… Read More…

Space Shuttle Day: Seattle gets peek at trainer as Discovery descends on D.C.

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It’s a big day for space nerds. On the East Coast today, Space Shuttle Discovery is making its final flight this morning – going from Florida to Washington, D.C., on the back of a Boeing 747, to a new home at the Smithsonian. And later this morning in Seattle, officials at the Museum of Flight will take… Read More…

Congratulations, Seattle: You’re getting a space toilet

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It just kept getting better and better at Seattle’s Museum of Flight today. First former, Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi announced that he would be donating the Soyuz TMA-13 Reentry Module that returned him safely to Earth after his second trip to the International Space Station. He’ll be making the spacecraft available on a long-term loan to… Read More…

Seattle’s Museum of Flight getting a Soyuz spacecraft, courtesy Charles Simonyi

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Seattle’s Museum of Flight lost out in the competition to exhibit a Space Shuttle orbiter, but it turns out it will be getting a Russian Soyuz spacecraft to display. Charles Simonyi, the former Microsoft executive who twice traveled to space as a tourist, will be contributing a Soyuz TMA-13 Reentry Module for the museum to… Read More…

Ex-Microsoftie Charles Simonyi donates millions to support ‘curiosity-driven’ research

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Former Microsoft engineer Charles Simonyi and the Simons Foundation are pumping $100 million into The Institute for Advanced Study, a New Jersey-based organization that says its is “fostering fundamental research that advances our understanding of the world.” It marks the largest donation since the organization was started in the 1930s, and it is part of… Read More…